Icona Pop “It’s Us Two. Let’s Stick To Who We Are”

Plenty of people got their first taste of Icona Pop when ‘I Love It’ was featured on hit US show, Girls. It was the soundtrack to Lena Dunham’s drug-fuelled rager, and as she screamed the words across a packed club, Twitter blew up with admiration. “There was so many different kinds of people liking the song, and it spread like fire. Like a virus. Everywhere” Caroline Hjelt explains, reminiscing about the immediate impact the song had.

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I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone.I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn.I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.I crashed my car into the bridge.

I don't care, I love it. I don't care.

I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone.I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn.I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.I crashed my car into the bridge.

I don't care, I love it. I don't care.

You're on a different road, I'm in the milky wayYou want me down on earth, but I am up in spaceYou're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switchYou're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch

I love it!I love it!

I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone.I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn.I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.I crashed my car into the bridge.

Since then, Icona Pop, who are Caroline and Aino Jawo, have toured with two of the biggest pop stars in the world, played Times Square at New Years Eve and had their songs featured in shows like Vampire Diaries and Glee. They refer to themselves as “happy homeless” because of the nomadic lifestyle that has taken toll and have to remember not to talk about work when they’re not, well, working. Which is rarely.

Fame came quite suddenly for the pair, who seem to still be catching up with themselves. “We didn’t have much time to over think things. It was kind of a good thing, we were like, OK. It’s us two. Let’s stick to who we are”. And so they have, with no hint of the pop star traits of perhaps anybody else in their position. A career of “playing dirty clubs in Germany and Sweden” has given Icona Pop a backbone that encourages their need to reach out to everyone in the room, connecting with everyone no matter the size of the gig. “You might be singing to the guy in the back of the room, and you see that guy, even if the guy doesn’t think you see him”.

Aino is candid when talking about their performances supporting Katy Perry. “It is a warm up show. You have to remember that, that people are there to see Katy. We make sure that they’re shaking their asses.” It’s a wonderful mix of humble, hopeful and incredibly grateful, as Caroline talks about the range of shows they’re currently playing. “We’re doing festivals, we’re on major pop tours, we’re DJing little clubs in Paris, It’s such a big variety, and I’m very happy that we’re able to do it...though of course we want to go out and do our very own world tour”.

With an impending new album and a possible world tour of their own in their sights, when asked about who we can expect to hear further collaborations with, Icona Pop keep schtum. They’ve been forbidden to speak about who they’re working with, an indicator that it’s probably a big artist (Katy? Miley? We don’t know who we’d prefer). Though the option is most likely there, neither of them are into swish recording techniques, admitting “we don’t rent a big fancy studio. On our last album we actually recorded some of the vocals in a toilet. We usually sing everything together, in the same microphone”. An image forms of the tall and fabulous duo hunched over a cistern, giggling over a microphone.

Icona Pop have a charm and ease about them that seems like it would work as well behind a DJ booth as in front of thousands of people- it’s easy to forget their roots, making music for French electro label Kitsune way back in 2009, producing a sound that is a wiggle away from the hits they’re known for now. When asked if they’ve ever faced problems in a male dominated section of the music industry, both girls answer in unison (which they do frequently) “All the time”. “There’s few women out there. It’s getting better, but it still happens when we DJ, people will be like ‘here is where you push out the CD’. That’s when you ask yourself, why do you think they booked us?”

It’s a subject Icona Pop are clearly passionate about and become as incensed as two incredibly lovely women can be. Of course, they end the discussion about it on a characteristically nice note. “A lot of people don’t mean to be rude, they just don’t know better. We’re just trying to teach them”.

Icona Pop are currently supporting Katy Perry on tour and play V Festival on 16 August

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We always dreamed about this better life, this better lifeWe always felt it coming all along, yeah all alongWe've got the keys to open paradise, yeah paradiseNow let's go walking hand in hand

Come on baby we can hit the lightsMake the wrongs turn rightWe can smash the clockmake the pop go rockWith a love this deepwe don't need no sleepAnd it feels like

we could do this all nightWe could do this all night

Yeah everything is alright

We've got the keys to open paradise, yeah paradiseIt feels like...we could do this all night(we could do this all night)

Oh winter melts under the summer skies, the summer skiesThe seasons change, our hearts will stay the same, yeah stay the sameWe got that burning feeling, start a fire, start a fireGive it a shout, let's make it hotCome on baby we can hit the lightsMake the wrongs turn rightWe can smash the clock

make the pop go rockWith a love this deep

we don't need no sleep

And it feels like

we could do this all nightWe could do this all nightYeah everything is alrightWe've got the keys to open paradise, yeah paradiseIt feels like...we could do this all nightFeels like...we could do this all night

Come on baby we can hit the lightsMake the wrongs turn rightWe can smash the clockmake the pop go rockWith a love this deepwe don't need no sleepAnd it feels like...we could do this all nightWe could do this all nightWe could do this all nightwe could do this all nightYeah everything is alrightWe got the keys to open paradise, yeah paradiseIt feels like...we could do this all night

Writer(s): SAM PHILLIPS
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